She was the daughter and sole heiress of either a cattle baron or an oil millionaire and, having arrived in New York with a big bank roll, became a dabbler in various fields.

She became aware that two Italian workmen, carrying a large azalea pot, were standing before her and wanted her to move so that they could begin arranging a new row of the display.

She called him, " an intelligent, philosophic, modest man " and found his views on education " very attractive ". Locals in Cheshire were less supportive and became suspicious of his methods.

She converted to Islam and became known as Umm Habiba ( Little Mother of the Beloved ).

She became Tiberius's first wife and was the mother of his natural son Drusus Julius Caesar.

She became involved in politics in Tiberius ’ imperial court, became an advocate for her sons to succeed Tiberius, and opposed Tiberius ’ natural son and natural grandson Tiberius Gemellus for succession.

She became a national figure in 1991 when she alleged that U. S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had made harassing sexual statements when he was her supervisor at the U. S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

She became the mother of one of David's sons, who is listed in the Book of Chronicles under the name Daniel, in the Masoretic Text of the Books of Samuel as Chileab, and in the Septuagint text of 2 Samuel 3: 3 as Δαλουια, Dalouia.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

She became a vegetarian and raised three million francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and many personal belongings.

She became the sister-in-law of her friend and colleague, Édouard Manet, when she married his brother, Eugène.

She also drew Manet into the circle of painters who soon became known as the Impressionists.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

She won so much land for her father's kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster.

She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.

She became known in the 1970s in films such as Hester Street ( for which she received an Academy Award nomination ) and Annie Hall.

She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles.

She became a member of the Communist Party in 1938, and married Deng a year later in front of Mao's cave dwelling in Yan ' an.

She became the top-ranking female box office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 10 box office performers ( male and female ), as of 2012.

She also later became a moon goddess, supplanting Titan goddess Luna.

She also became the goddess of childbirth and ruled over the countryside.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

She made headlines and became part of the national debate over troubled child stars, particularly given the difficulties of her Diff ' rent Strokes co-stars, Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges.

She was appointed to several government advisory bodies on education.

She created and serves as the chair of The Carter Center Mental Health Task Force, an advisory board of experts, consumers, and advocates promoting positive change in the mental health field.

She is an occasional contributor and sits on the advisory board of a new Open Access, Open Source, Open Peer Review journal, the Journal of Participatory Medicine.

She has served on the advisory board of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

She was a member of the advisory panel of the New Statesman magazine for ten years from 1980, and is a former school governor at the Kentish Town Primary School.

She created an advisory group on victims and the Criminal Justice Centre, Victims and Witness units.

She was appointed to a parks advisory committee, and in 1976, became the first woman to serve on the West Linn City Council.

She was a member of the external advisory board of the Intellectual Property and Law Centre at Edinburgh University ( the board was disbanded after the centre became established ).

She is member of the advisory board of the Washington & Lee Mock Convention

She went on to serve on many boards and advisory positions with various civic and business institutions around the country.

She now serves on international advisory boards for American International Group, the Coca-Cola Company, Gilead Sciences, Inc., J. P. Morgan Chase and Rolls Royce as well as the board of the U. S .- China Business Council.

She was the script editor at the reading series The Fifth Night, and is on the advisory board of the Woodstock Film Festival.

She sits on the following advisory boards: Editorial Committee Journal of Family Planning ; Primary Care Erectile Dysfunction Society ; National Association for Premenstrual Syndrome ; Women ’ s Health Concern ; Sensational Sex in 7 Easy Steps ; Jo's Trust ( cervical cancer support ).

She was an advisory member of the committee for the President of the Women's Business Network ( RÉFAP ) and a guest speaker at the Public Service Commission Management School.

She has also been active as a member of important international advisory panels, including most

She also worked in an advisory capacity for the National Park Service and the non-profit organization, Executive Women in Government.

She has also continued her efforts on behalf of women in business while working at Catalyst, a business and research advisory firm.

She serves on the advisory board of the Genetics Policy Institute.

She was on the advisory board of the Ecovillage Training Center in Summertown, Tennessee as well as other organizations working to provide positive solutions for living in our times.

She is on various scientific advisory boards and regularly lectures on this subject.

She has served on the advisory board of the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research and a member of the board of directors for CARE Canada, and as the volunteer chair for the fund-raising campaign for Ryerson University's community health center.

She served on the advisory board of the education fund Give Girls a Chance from 2003 to 2006.

She has served on the literature advisory panels of the Arts Council and the British Council.

She serves in an advisory capacity to the departments of education at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Urban Pedagogy ( all New York City ).